[PDF] A booklet by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl) for the exhibition Tagore’s Post Office, curated by Grant Watson at NGBK, Berlin (workshop 4).
Page from Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition booklet
Vivian Ziherl talks about Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl, established in 2013, have been re-surveying modernity through the lens of land histories, and the sedimentary grounds to the colonial struggle)
Vivian Ziherl presents on behalf of Landings, Tagore Centre, London
This is the collection of photos of the various events held for the fourth workshop in Berlin. Friday at NGBK; Saturday at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmannan’s Studio and again in the NGBK in the evening
Anna Boghiguian’s drawing, NGBK Berlin
Otolith Group mural detail, NGBK Berlin
Otolith Group mural, NGBK Berlin
Elzbieta Walter: Public Talk
Elzbieta Walter
Audience, NGBK
Elzbieta Walter
A German translation of Tagore from 1918, brought by a member of the audience
workshop at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann’s studio
workshop at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann’s studio
FRAGMENTING TAGORE: Saturday 12 April
NGBK, Andrea Phillips, Grant Watson and Elke Falat
Anshuman Biswas and Magda Mayas: Parentheses on Truth, Beauty and Humanity; a live event based on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore with took place at Einstein’s house near Berlin in 1930.
Anshuman Biswas and Magda Mayas
NGBK audience
Anshuman Dasgupta: Translating Tagore: the problems and possibilities of attending Tagore from another language and culture
Anshuman Dasgupta and Sanchayan Ghosh
Adrian Rifkin: Tagore seen seated: some others standing, a short speculation in composing the past-imperfect of the ‘post-colonial’
Adrian Rifkin
These are the photographs taken during the third workshop at Iniva and the Tagore Centre, London, March 2014. Photos by Ho, Yu, Sheng and Carla Cruz.
Kodwo Eshun, Andrea Phillips and Grant Watson, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
photo by Carla Cruz
Eona McCallum, Shanay Jhaveri and Wendelien van Oldenborgh, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Kodwo Eshun, Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Grant Watson, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Adrian Rifkin, Andreas Mueller and Antje Weitzel, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Tagore Centre, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Tagore Centre, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
Otolith Group example of a wall paper design, photo by Ho, Yu Sheng
Research Group, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng
The fourth workshop takes place in Berlin at NGBK as part of the exhibition Tagore’s Post Office, curated by Grant Watson.
Installation view, NGBK, Berlin, photo by Carla Cruz
(See the booklet Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition, published as part of Landings’ contribution to the exhibition)
Landings ‘Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition’ , NGBK Berlin, photo by Winfried Mateyka
As well as a final workshop with members of the network there will be two public events at NGBK (download invite):
Friday 11 April 7pm:
Public talk by Elzbieta Walter introduced and chaired by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl)
Despite the fact that Tagore never visited Poland, he is no doubt the only Indian writer whose writings have been extensively translated into Polish. The play Dakghar (The Post Office) has been translated into Polish five times by different translators. It was also staged several times. One of the most significant staging was conducted during the Second World War in Poland in Jewish Orphans’ Home in the Warsaw ghetto run by Janusz Korczak. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (1878/79-1942), a Polish-Jewish educator, physician, children’s author and essayist. He organized a staging of Dakghar with the children of the orphanage just few weeks before several of them and he were deported to the concentration camp of Treblinka.
Elzbieta Walter is a Tagore scholar and literary theorist based in Poland, and an alumnus of Santiniketan.
Elzbieta Walter, photo by Carla Cruz
Saturday 12 April 7pm
Fragmenting Tagore
Public event with Anshuman Dasgupta, Ansuman Biswas and guest (Magda Mayas) and Adrian Rifkin.
Introduced by Andrea Phillips and Grant Watson.
Ansuman Biswas and Magda Mayas, NGBK, Berlin, photo by Carla Cruz
Anshuman Dasgupta: Translating Tagore: the problems and possibilities of attending to Tagore from another language and culture
Adrian Rifkin: Tagore seen seated: some others standing, a short speculation in composing the past-imperfect of the ‘post-colonial’, see video-documentation here.
Ansuman Biswas and guest: Parentheses on Truth, Beauty and Humanity; a live event based on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore which took place at Einstein’s house near Berlin in 1930
Anshuman Dasgupta is part of the teaching faculty in the Art History department in Kalabhavan, Santiniketan (Visva Bharati University)
Adrian Rifkin is Professor Emeritus of Art Writing, Goldsmiths, London
Ansuman Biswas is an artist, musician and Director of the Tagore Centre UK
[PDF] Notes from workshop 4 Berlin April 2014.
Otolith Group,’s ‘A Century Before Us’ NGBK, Berlin, photo by Winfried Mateyka
The third workshop takes place at Iniva and the Tagore Centre, London, March 2014.
SATURDAY 15 MARCH 12-6pm:
Institute of International Visual Arts, Rivington Place, Rivington St, London EC2A
photo by Carla Cruz
12:00: Introduction – Andrea Phillips
12:30: Grant Watson and Andrea Phillips in conversation: learning from Santiniketan
13:15: Anjalika Sagar – notes on The Otolith Group Tagore film project
14:00: lunch
15:00: Wendelien van Oldenborgh – ideas of pedagogy and colonialism in Indonesia
watch video
( COLLECTION_TROPENMUSEUM_’De heer Soerjoadipoetro houdt een voordracht over de school van Tagore voor o.a. kwekelingen van het Nationaal Onderwijs Instituut ‘Taman Siswa’ te Bandung Java’ (Mister Soerjoadipoetro is lecturing about the school of Tagore for a group of students who will become teachers in the National Educational Institute ‘Taman Siswa’, in Bandung, Java)
15:45: Anshuman Dasgupta – sound files from Santiniketan
16:30: Adrian Rifkin: Tagore in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy: a reading
17:00: tea and general discussion
18:00: ends
photo by Carla Cruz
SUNDAY 16 MARCH 11-2pm:
Tagore Centre, Alexandra Park Library, Alexandra Park Road, London N22 7UJ
Discussion of NGBK Tagore exhibition and the next workshop:
11:00: Introduction by Grant Watson
11.30: Introduction to NGBK by Antje Weitzel and Elke Falat
12:00: Discussion of exhibition design with Andreas Mueller
13:00: Presentation of research for exhibition by Vivian Ziherl (Landings)
13.30: general discussion
14:00: ends
[PDF] Notes from meeting 3
Natasha Ginwala is an independent curator, researcher and writer. She is currently part of the artistic team of the 8th Berlin Biennale. Recent projects include, Landings, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and partner organizations (with Vivian Ziherl) and The Museum of Rhythm, Taipei Biennial 2012 (with Anselm Franke).
Vivian Ziherl is a curator, researcher and writer. Since 2011 she has been a Curator at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam. Recent projects include Landings, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and partner organisations (with Natasha Ginwala) and StageIt! (Part 1 & 2) at the Stedelijk Museum, 2012/2013 (with Hendrik Folkerts).
Conceived by curators Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl. Landings is initiated upon invitation of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam) and presented with partner organizations including Studium Generale Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam); the Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam); the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); BARBERSHOP (Lisbon); Campo Adentro (Madrid); David Roberts Art Foundation (London); Iniva (London) in collaboration with NGBK (Berlin).